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    Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, 04 February 2022. The Olympic Games in Beijing will continue until Feb. 20, when the medal games and closing ceremony will take place. (Handout image from Kremlin Press Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    Vladimir Putin, unmasked

    Image of the Week: True to form, the Russian president tries something no one else thinks they can get away with

    A local resident shovels snow after A local resident shovels snow after a snowstorm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Toronto Mayor John Tory declared a "major snowstorm condition" and said it would take at least 72 hours clear the city of snow. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images)a snowstorm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Toronto Mayor John Tory declared a "major snowstorm condition" and said it would take at least 72 hours clear the city of snow. Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Fine, let’s shovel. But where are we supposed to put the snow?

    Image of the Week: Snowstorms that hit Central Canada renewed an age-old debate for people who have to shovel out their cars

    A Ski-Doo train packed with courage, care and badly needed supplies

    Image of the Week: First Nations in northwestern Ontario are rushing to help COVID-stricken Bearskin Lake. By snowmobile, if necessary.

    Governor General Mary Simon ahead of the Throne Speech on Nov. 23, 2021 (Sean Kilpatrick /AFP/CP)

    Mary Simon’s land acknowledgement isn’t symbolic: ‘It is our true history’

    Image of the Week: The governor general is a symbolic role and Simon’s appointment a symbolic victory. But her land acknowledgement—a bit of symbolic prose—is more than that.

    A car lies submerged in a ditch on a flooded stretch of road after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada November 15, 2021. (Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)

    A harrowing image of the B.C. floods that caused mudslides and trapped motorists

    Image of the Week: An unusually heavy ‘atmospheric river’ drowned cars like this one and follows record-breaking wildfires earlier this year. The West Coast can’t catch a break.

    A wedding fit for a commoner

    Image of the week: Japan’s Princess Mako trades her royal title for love in a simple ceremony so not to rile her family and the Japanese public

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau arrive for the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct.26, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

    It’s raining, it’s pouring, the PM names a cabinet

    Image of the week: Justin Trudeau strolled up to Rideau Hall, umbrella in hand and storms brewing. It was a world apart from the happier times of 2015.

    Trudeau walking the beach with his wife Sophie at Tofino, B.C. (Global/Twitter)

    Trudeau hits the beach in Tofino. At least he isn’t surfing.

    Image of the Week: Symbolism is an important part of reconciliation with First Nations. The PM’s oceanside getaway could not have made that clearer.

    23 September 2021, Marlow: Angela Merkel (CDU), German Chancellor, feeds Australian lorises at Marlow Bird Park and gets bitten. (Georg Wendt/Getty Images)

    Auf Wiedersehen, Angela Merkel. Goodbye.

    Image of the Week: Germany’s unflappable, long-serving chancellor departs the political stage with a rare show of vulnerability

    Gold medallist Andre De Grasse of Canada lies on the track after winning the Men's 200m. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

    Stand up and take a bow, Andre De Grasse

    Image of the Week: Canada’s 200-metre gold medallist, recumbent in glory

    Mary Simon and her husband Whit Fraser leave after the announcement at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau that Simon, an Inuk leader and former Canadian diplomat, has been named as Canada's next governor general — the first Indigenous person to serve in the role. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

    Mary Simon, at the moment she’s needed most

    Image of the Week: Simon becomes the first Indigenous person to serve as Governor General, and arrives at a time of great reckoning

    Marc Bergevin celebrates the Montreal Canadiens victory. (@timandfriends/Sportsnet)

    Is this Marc Bergevin dancing? Or just his red suit?

    Image of the Week: The Montreal Canadiens GM does a dad-jig on behalf of the storied club’s ecstatic fans

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